Alexandra Physiotherapy Clinic — Gloucester Physiotherapy Digital Visibility Score

Digital Visibility Score: 61 / 100 · Rank 10 of 46

Digital Visibility Score61/100Rank 10 of 46 · top 20%Critical problem1Search engines are being told not to index this siteOne page from the first3Closest: physiotherapy Hucclecote at #17Furthest behind-4.5Local presence: 68 against a sector median of 72.5

Measured 1 September 2026 via the PYC Gloucester Physiotherapy Digital Visibility Index. Every figure is objective and reproducible from the methodology. Spotted an error? Request a correction.

Pillar breakdown vs sector median

Each pillar scored 0–100 against the sector median for this index. The final column is this firm's distance from that median.

Pillar	Score	Median	vs median
Speed & CWV	84	63	+21
Technical	88	88	level
Local presence	68	72.5	−4.5
Visibility	33	10.5	+22.5
AI search presence	20	0	+20
Content & trust	50	49	+1

Pillar performance against the sector median. Bars right of centre are above the median, left are below.

Speed & CWV		+21
Technical		0
Local presence		-4.5
Visibility		+22.5
AI search presence		+20
Content & trust		+1

Problems found

1 critical problem found. These are specific, checkable faults on the site — not opinions about it.

• CriticalSearch engines are being told not to index this siteThe site’s own robots.txt disallows crawling. Until that changes, nothing else on this page can help — the pages cannot enter the index in the first place.

Where this firm ranks

Ranks for 8 of 12 keywords, average position 25.4, in the local 3-pack for 0 keywords.

Keyword	Position
physiotherapy Gloucester	#18
physio Gloucester	#21
best physiotherapist Gloucester	#29
sports injury clinic Gloucester	#44
back pain treatment Gloucester	not in top 100
chiropractor Gloucester	not in top 100
osteopath Gloucester	not in top 100
private physio Gloucester	#20
rehabilitation clinic Gloucester	not in top 100
physiotherapy Quedgeley	#26
physiotherapy Hucclecote	#17
physio Quedgeley	#28

The gap to the leader

This firm against the sector median and the index leader, 5 Valleys Physio Ltd (Gloucester), on every pillar.

Speed & CWV		84
Technical		88
Local presence		68
Visibility		33
AI search presence		20
Content & trust		50

this firm sector median leader

Alexandra Physiotherapy Clinic trails 5 Valleys Physio Ltd (Gloucester) by 152 points across 4 pillars, but 72% of that is AI search presence and Content & trust alone. It already matches or beats the leader on Speed & CWV, Technical.

Closest to the first page

Ranked between #11 and #20 — one page from the first, ordered by how close.

physiotherapy Hucclecote		#17
physiotherapy Gloucester		#18
private physio Gloucester		#20

3 positions sit between #11 and #20 — one page away, and the cheapest ranking work available to this firm.

AI search presence

Named in 1 of 5 AI answers. A domain citation is stronger evidence than a name mention.

✓	Who are the best physiotherapists in Gloucester?	cited by domain
✗	Which physio clinic in Gloucester would you recommend for a sports injury?
✗	Top rated physiotherapy in Gloucester
✗	I have back pain and live in Gloucester - who should I see?
✗	Best physiotherapy in Quedgeley, Gloucester

Local presence

Google Business Profile.

Rating	5 / 5
Reviews	4
Locations	1
Reviews in last 90 days	1
Address matches website	yes

Why this score

What each score is made of. Every input here is in the open dataset, so the arithmetic can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Pillar	Score	Made up of
Content & trust	50	about page: no · team page: yes · credentials: no · blog or news: yes · homepage: 274 words
Visibility	33	ranks for 8 of 12 keywords · average position 25.4 · local 3-pack: 0
Local presence	68	4 reviews · rated 5 · 1 new in 90 days
Technical	88	HTTPS: yes · page allows indexing: yes · robots.txt allows crawling: no · sitemap: yes · structured data: yes

Key findings

• No pillar falls materially below the sector median this quarter.

How this compares to the leader

5 Valleys Physio Ltd (Gloucester) leads the index with 78/100. The largest gaps are: AI search presence (20 vs 100); Content & trust (50 vs 79); Local presence (68 vs 90).

Top fixes (ranked by impact)

1. Publish structured, citable content and entity schema so AI engines surface the business for core local queries.
2. Build local landing pages for the core keyword basket to lift organic and local-pack appearance.
3. Add about/team pages, and refresh stale content.

Firms ranked near this one

The firms nearest Alexandra Physiotherapy Clinic in this ranking, beyond the two either side.

Firm	Rank	Score	Why it is here
Farr Physiotherapy	#8	64/100	2 places above you
The Fixer Chiropractic	#12	61/100	2 places below you
Churchdown Osteopaths	#7	64/100	3 places above you
ToT Gloucestershire - Private Home Visit Physiotherapy Service for Elderly	#13	61/100	3 places below you

Context (not scored)

Recorded alongside the measurement to make it easier to judge, but carrying no weight in the Digital Visibility Score. See the methodology.

Companies House	Company 07137098 · 16.6 years old · active · SIC 86220
Real-user speed (CrUX)	Too little traffic to appear in Chrome’s public dataset
Lighthouse (lab, mobile)	Performance 93 · accessibility 85 · best practices 81 · SEO 92 — biggest losses: Does not use HTTPS; Avoid multiple page redirects; Document request latency
Google profile detail	4 photos · claimed · no description · hours listed
Backlinks	40 referring domains · 83 links · rank 87 · 38 broken
Site structure	1 pages crawled · 7 internal links per page · reachable in: contact 1 click, team 1 click · 0% of links use a generic anchor · 3 sitemap pages not reachable by following links
Sitemap	3 URLs listed · declared in robots.txt · newest entry 4871 days old · 3 of 3 sampled URLs resolve

Where to get this fixed

Alexandra Physiotherapy Clinic’s lowest-scoring pillars among those we publish remediation guidance for:

• AI search presence (20/100) — read generative engine optimisation on getting named by the answer engines this pillar measures. Background on analysing this pillar: ai search presence.
• Visibility (33/100) — read topical authority on why ranking breadth across a sector beats chasing single terms. Background on analysing this pillar: visibility.

↑ Ranked aboveCheltenham Chiropractic Clinic#9 · 62/100 Full indexAll 46 firms ↓ Ranked belowGloucester Chiropractic Clinic#11 · 61/100

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How this is measured: see the index methodology, and the statistical methods behind each pillar. This index is published by PYC; if you want this score moved, start here.